Bank Block Tenants

[Cole Webber @colefwebber]

This morning I watched an LTB eviction hearing for an elderly woman who has lived in the same apartment for decades whose landlord said he is moving into her place even though there is another vacant unit in the building, but there is no mention of evictions in the article

[Josh Hawley @squashhawley]

ICYMI: Smart Living, now Dwell, owes $50M for Dwell Hintonburg incl. $0.5M to the city yet the city approved 2 more big developments. Plus their contractor was fined $130k for violating collective agreement.
https://t.co/W3yVQJLkoj

[Josh Hawley @squashhawley]

Read about how SLP owing half a mil to the city has not stopped their developments getting approved

[The Leveller @leveller_ottawa]

“How in the world could the City of #Ottawa approve another development application involving the same investors who owe them half a million dollars?”

We investigated the #Ontario Smart Living Properties' forced receivership.

Read about it here: https://t.co/sbw4MgLqeT

[Bank Block Tenants @bbtenants]

"We Live Here"

Student film by Jamie Carrick

The film documents the events of Nov 10, 2024. Tamer Abaza - CEO of SLP / DWELL, and Altea Ottawa investor - drew BBT into criminal proceedings based on the visit to his home shown here

https://t.co/jsdGHW57Fg

[rapidly warming girl summer @latestagewhat]

the bar is literally on the floor for housing in this country... tell me why the City of Toronto waived probably MILLIONS in development charges for Dream a landlord with a track record of raising rents and evicting tenants just to build rental housing that is NOT RENT CONTROLLED

[Dave @dsherwoodb]

Issuing eviction notices — often en masse — with no legal basis is so widespread and effective a tactic that it’s not reasonable to give landlords the benefit of the doubt when they claim “error”.

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[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

Starlight Investments now says the eviction notices were issued in error. Regardless, Starlight has responded to tenants not paying rent increases still under dispute by threatening them with eviction. https://t.co/lBKbVcEG3B

[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

Even though the rent hikes were stayed by the courts, PSP and Starlight issued N4 eviction notices to tenants at our buildings who did not pay the AGIs.

Our landlords continue to back their intention to extract from tenants the highest possible rents with the threat of eviction.

[RenovictionsTO @renovictions]

As the Star reports, PSP Investments and Starlight are pursuing mass evictions in Thorncliffe Park.

Yet when Starlight’s CEO was called to Ottawa to testify about the dispute they said they were “not seeking to evict any residents from 71, 75 and 79 Thorncliffe Park Drive”

[RenovictionsTO @renovictions]

Initially PSP Investments refused to comment on the situation in Thorncliffe or admit they owned the buildings. Now they say they expect Starlight to follow the law when it comes to their “joint portfolio”.

Wondering what PSP will say next about displacing hundreds of people…

[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

New coverage from CBC News, on our fight against PSP Investments’ and Starlight Investments’ rent hikes, poor conditions at our buildings, and how a federal crown corporation is pricing us out of our homes

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

🧵@AMOPolicy has released a devastating report about the state of homelessness in Ontario, which gives us our most accurate figure of how many Ontarians are currently homeless: 81,515 — a 25% increase in two years — of whom 41,512 are chronically homeless. https://t.co/s7lPzwkG39

[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

Tenants of 71, 75, and 79 Thorncliffe Park disrupted the Canadian Club’s Annual Outlook today, where Starlight Investments executive Dennis Mitchell was speaking.

Our rent strike in protest of above guideline rent increases being sought by Starlight and PSP Investments continues

[TorontoToday @torontotodayca]

VIDEO: Prolific 'renovictor' insists there's no such thing https://t.co/tmJDJ1IAAg

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Freezing to death due to a lack of decent shelter or housing is entirely preventable. Eight Palestinian babies in Gaza have been killed this way over the past few days because of Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people fuelled by the capitalist and colonial interests of the imperial West. A community member in Ottawa died this way this week as well, because of capitalist interests in the housing system in the colonial West by developers and corporations always putting profits over people. Housing is a human right - from Turtle Island to Palestine.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

In an era where healthcare is deeply entwined with the capitalist logic of profit maximization—often prioritizing revenue over patient care—and where the role of doctors has been reduced to mere cogs in a profit-driven machine, the healthcare workers in Gaza offer a strikingly different example of what it means to be a doctor or nurse. Their role is defined by an unyielding commitment to stand by their patients—the injured, the vulnerable—in the face of a brutal killing machine that targets hospitals, healthcare workers, and patients alike.

Gaza’s healthcare workers are literally sacrificing their lives and freedoms to serve their patients, risking everything to uphold their oaths. No movies will be made about their heroism, their images won’t grace billboards or posters, and their names won’t be celebrated or remembered by their counterparts or by the media in the West. Yet history will remember them as heroes—true heroes who have always been so. A genocide didn’t need to happen for us to recognize their courage and devotion; the past 14 months only underscored what was always evident.

[Bank Block Tenants @bbtenants]

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